Amos Lee Ponder
Amos Lee Ponder Jr. was a Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from January 4, 1937 to October 19, 1959.
Born at Fort Jesup in Louisiana, Ponder attended Mt. Lebanon College and Tulane University, and graduated as president of his class at Louisiana State University in 1912. Ponder was a Louisiana district attorney until 1930, and then a district judge from 1930 to 1937, when he was elected to the state supreme court. He was reelected in 1950.
Ponder died at Baptist Hospital in New Orleans, following a bout with pneumonia.
